Playboy Japan interview

[MalignD at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/26/06 9:19:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
pynchonoid at yahoo.com writes:

<< Only in the caricatures of the interview that Malign has exaggerated in 
his posts. Most of the p-listers I've talked with understand it was a rough 
translation
 done in a hurry to provide the gist of its content to  pynchon-l, that it 
was never intended as a document on which to base a serious critique.  According 
to Japanese speakers I've heard describe the article, it doesn't make Pynchon 
sound like an idiot at all, but since I don't read Japanese I can't testify 
to that personally, although I pass along what they say. >>

In short, your opinion is worthless.  My response was to what was available 
to both of us.  He sounded like an idiot.